that had happened.
004:022 For the man was over forty years of age on whom this miracle
of restoration to health had been performed.
004:023 After their release the two Apostles went to their friends,
and told them all that the High Priests and Elders had said.
004:024 And they, upon hearing the story, all lifted up their voices
to God and said, "O Sovereign Lord, it is Thou who didst make
Heaven and earth and sea, and all that is in them,
004:025 and didst say through the Holy Spirit by the lips of our forefather
David Thy servant, "`Why have the nations stamped and raged,
and the peoples formed futile plans?
004:026 The kings of the earth came near, and the rulers assembled
together against the Lord and against His Anointed.'"
004:027 "They did indeed assemble in this city in hostility to Thy holy
Servant Jesus whom Thou hadst anointed--Herod and Pontius Pilate
with the Gentiles and also the tribes of Israel--
004:028 to do all that Thy power and Thy will had predetermined
should be done.
004:029 And now, Lord, listen to their threats, and enable Thy servants
to proclaim Thy Message with fearless courage,
004:030 whilst Thou stretchest out Thine arm to cure men, and to give
signs and marvels through the name of Thy holy Servant Jesus."
004:031 When they had prayed, the place in which they were assembled shook,
and they were, one and all, filled with the Holy Spirit,
and proceeded to tell God's Message with boldness.
004:032 Among all those who had embraced the faith there was but one heart
and soul, so that none of them claimed any of his possessions
as his own, but everything they had was common property;
004:033 while the Apostles with great force of conviction delivered
their testimony as to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus;